Top 1200 Art Forms Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.

Basically the problem is that if the intellect is looking at or beholding the forms, what it will get is some kind of representation or image of the forms, but it won't actually have the forms, it won't touch them as it were, or it won't incorporate them.

The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.

Praying is the same to the new creature as crying is to the natural. The child is not learned by art or example to cry, but instructed by nature; it comes into the world crying. Praying is not a lesson got by forms and rules of art, but flowing from principles of new life itself.

Literature has drawn a funny perimeter that other art forms haven't.

We do express our emotions, our reactions to events, breakups and infatuations, but the way we do that - the art of it - is in putting them into prescribed forms or squeezing them into new forms that perfectly fit some emerging context. That’s part of the creative process, and we do it instinctively; we internalize it, like birds do. And it’s a joy to sing, like the birds do.

I see a lot of art; we see a lot of music, films at Sundance... that influences me and informs me more than theater just because I make a bigger effort to see other art forms.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

The practice of listening is one of the most mysterious, luminous, and challenging art forms on Earth.

Blues is one of the most important art forms. It's an amazing music, and we don't want to lose it.

What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.

I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.

I adore opera and I truly believe it is one of the most beautiful art forms on Earth.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Stand-up is one of the art forms where you don't have to look nice, and I hope it stays that way.

Opera is one of the most important art forms. It should be listened to and appreciated by everyone.

I believe that both art and the human striving for cognitive comprehension are manifest forms of the grand game in which nothing more is stipulated than the game's rules; both art and actively solicited perceptions are but special cases of the recurring creative act to which we owe our existence.

The purpose of art is always, ultimately, to give pleasure - though our sensibilities may take time to catch up with the forms of pleasure that art in a given time may offer.

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art.

Art is the creation of forms symbolic of human feeling.

I'm interested in so many different things and art forms.

My recollections of Armenia open new visions for me. My art is therefore a growth art where forms, pines, shapes, memories of Armenia germinate, breathe, expand and contract, multiply and thereby create new paths for exploration.

God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.

Moral beauty is the basis of all true beauty. This foundation is somewhat covered and veiled in nature. Art brings it out, and gives it more transparent forms. It is here that art, when it knows well its power and resources, engages in a struggle with nature in which it may have the advantage.

What initially attracted me to The Seventh Seal was that it had values and characteristics which I was familiar with in other art forms, most notably, the European novel and certain forms on English drama, and indeed, in relation to my rather academic interest in history -- not "history" in the normal sense, but history as a form of entertainment . It might be a very unfashionable view but I believe that history is an amazing bank or reserve area of plots, characterisations, extraordinary events, etc.

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

I like marrying the concept of music with new media art forms.

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system.

Too often, it is presumed that young people will only like art that they can immediately relate to. Working-class students may be steered towards popular culture like hip-hop, new media and film on the basis that they will find older art forms such as opera or ballet irrelevant.

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.

My life, colored by various art forms, has been exposed to diverse music.

In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.

Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

Every art form has its own beauty, but blending it with other forms in separate ways is okay.

Art neither belongs to religion, nor to ethics; but, like these, it brings us nearer to the Infinite, one of the forms of which it manifests to us. God is the source of all beauty, as of all truth, of all religion, of all morality. The most exalted object, therefore, of art is to reveal in its own manner the sentiment of the Infinite.

I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and the more decorative compositions of different forms of painting, which took away from the earlier photographic realism that I was doing.

The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strangest forms.

Of all the art forms that my family dabbles in, writing suits my temperament the most.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

There isn't only one way that black art or entertainment is represented, and that's the most important thing. We're permeating every style. We're claiming and, when necessary, appropriating all kinds of forms. Nothing is forbidden, because it's not what black people do: because it's not what we think of as black art.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.

Give me artificial flowers - porcelain and metal glories - neither fading nor decaying, forms unaging. Flowers of the splendid gardens of another place, where Forms and Styles and Knowledge dwell. I love flowers made of glass or gold, true Art's true gifts, their painted hues more beautiful than nature's, worked in nacre and enamel, with perfect leaves and branches.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.

Of course you have to provide for the vulnerable and the children, but also, the vulnerable and the children need art in some form or another. You need spiritual experiences that, I think, forms of art give best.

I like to mix things up and I take inspiration from many different art forms.

Sometimes magnificent visual art takes root in the humblest of soils. Advertisements painted on old barns, tattoos, fruit crate labels, hot rod embellishments - all these media and many other non-galleried forms have hosted and fostered esthetic delights that satisfy any rigorous definition of art.

It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.